skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's where I'm at too, I wanted to find the origin a quote and couldn't remember the exact words. Google was just pulling up random shit related to the words in the query and nothing related to the quote itself. ChatGPT figured it out in a minute. Same goes for looking stuff up in books, just ask what chapter something happens in.
Modernist tomfoolery; we’ll break even international conventions on historical preservation for the sake of a moral anyone can learn by watching a Disney movie.

If it even gets installed, watch in two decades as the old windows are returned once the banal novelty wears off.
7b to 9b is usually what we call small. the rule of thumb is a model that you can run on a single GPU.
That was an example of a train going slower on purpose to let people sleep a full night. A regular high-spees train could do that trip in 2-3 hours, beating a 1:15 flight in convenience by a huge margin.
From a quick spot check… yes?

Assume 120 homes in an area, evenly distributed per month on yearly leases. If all renters switch every month and it takes a month to re-rent the unit, there is a vacancy rate of 8.3%

Obviously not every renter moves every lease end, but also some units are in places no one wants to live, others are mispriced, some need renovation or extensive cleaning, etc.

But from a cursory sanity check the 6.9% number is likely reasonable for a fairly tight rental market.
You're absolutely right. Crossing != net new person in the US.

Total net migration is probably 8 million over the past 4 years:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-s...
Finetune and merge and quantize open source models with this Colab notebook
Qobuz allows purchasing some music (flac).

Qobuz does have its share of problems.

I often found its catalog lacking.

Its plagued with edited versions of albums that aren't labelled as edited.

It lacks filters. I'd like to filter out singles and just browse albums.
Why OpenAI in particular?

I mean, Gemini is much better than the "traditional" google search as well.

Anything is better than 2024 google search actually.
No it won’t! Ok, so you’ve gone and made rental housing economically unviable and only homeowners can have housing (everyone else is just homeless I guess). While you’ve made home ownership more feasible, you haven’t really made it feasible for a 19 year old working at McDonalds, or some guy stuck in a crap job in Mississippi who really should move to a better area with the more expensive housing to find a more suitable job (but they can’t since they own their house and they have to sell their house before they move and then be homeless for a while to accumulate more money to buy in that new area).

I lived in lots of places for a couple of years or less to take advantage of short term opportunities. You just made those impossible, since there is a lot of overhead in buying and selling a house, and you don’t do that if you are just in a place for two years.
I have no idea what my income is post tax.
Stack overflow launched 16 years ago, when for many years most of google results already were expertexchange type of sites with the obfuscated answers hidden pages deep in the link.
I’m not sure about that. I’d imagine that trains are going to have the worst of both worlds. They will take a long time (closer to amount of time to drive to destination). They also will have costs approaching that of a flight. To me a train trip makes sense if you enjoy trains and feel that the travel itself is part of the reward.
Unless you are thinking of moving to Germany, it might not be helpful to you.

https://allaboutberlin.com
> I wonder how many users Emacs has lost to VS Code over the past few years. I'm one of them.

I think Emacs users care more about the total population than one particular outmigration.

I don't have actual data, but if I compare to the amount of activity (blog posts, tweets/toots, packages, etc), then (heavy) Emacs usage seems to be monotonically increasing.

Almost everyone I know who switched to VSCode was using Emacs primarily for work, and mostly limited to SW development. That category of users may be large in absolute numbers, but most of the Emacs ecosystem is not driven by that category (i.e. even if that category shrinks to a tenth of its size, it won't have any impact on Emacs development).

Just take a look at the talks in the conference. The vast majority are orthogonal to SW development/programming.
>This is the fundamental reason why we've allowed Spotify to pocket 99% of the total value of music

Source? A quick search shows spotify is only pocketing 30%.

https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per...
The renters would move in and it would become their “primary residence” I think, and thus not be subject to 4x taxation. (It’s a poor choice of terms because we already talk about “primary” residence from the owner’s/landlord’s perspective, not the renter’s.)
Oh absolutely, I say all this as a deeply dissolutions British conservative who wonders what the heck has happened to Republicanism. It’s not all down to Trump either, it started before him with McConnell and others as I pointed out in another comment.
To lower the cost for everyone, including for those of limited means.
Not needed, at least in most Europe. Operators share data and you can get timetable information from any of them for all trains, including combined itinearies, and the expectation is you get information from your local train company.
Really hard to get a sense of scale from this article. It mentions 5,200 in shelters from the Maui fire, but there have been an estimated 8,000,000 net new immigrants over the past four years: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-s...
I think the last point doesn't really hold its own in any way. Many discoveries throughout history have started from someone just playing around with an idea, toying with it at first, but eventually becoming obsessed. The thing is, there's no way to tell beforehand. It might be a toy with no ultimate use or meaning, or it might lead to something entirely novel somewhere down the line. That's why play, in a very broad sense, is a core part of science and invention.
This will die the same way Do Not Track did.
> eugenics, poisoning, dictatorships, genocide, identity theft, torture, blackmail while moving.

No.

> simply wanting to live in a specific area?

Needing to live where existing jobs/clients were, for our multi-income household. Moving anywhere else at all would have stranded us without reasonable prospects.
Which housing related laws are "draconian"?
> Build mixed income public housing, Singapore style.

I work for a Singapore company, and the issues my coworkers complain about are that houses are leased for 99 years, have a 6-8 year waiting list, and are very expensive.

This makes it difficult to live near your office because you can't easily move. Many coworkers have 1.5-hour commutes one way via MRT.

None have shared this with me, but a huge amount of your assets are poured into an apartment that is a lease with an expiration date. In the USA, you can rely on home equity in your retirement, but if your lease is ending in 20 years, it's not valuable.
A lot of folks are focusing on the AI answers that Google gives, but for me the real downgrade has been the change in their algorithm a few years ago where it tries to search for what it thinks I mean instead of what I search for.

Even putting entire chunks of text in quotes isn’t enough anymore. I can never get Google to search for what I want without trying to engineer a prompt, when it could at some point.

In trying to become more helpful, it’s become worse.
Let's be honest: the major journalistic outlets only "speak truth to power" when it means they get to criticize their outgroup. Which means any time Republicans have power, they're falling over themselves to speak up. But when Democrats have power, they are conspicuously silent. Time and time again this happens, and they have completely undermined their own credibility by doing so.
Because it's the only way we'll ever get out of this mess.
Maybe we should stop sending NATO missiles their way via our proxy, Ukraine, maybe at that point nuclear de-escalation will become a thing again.

If that doesn’t work, and unfortunately I’m not confident that it will work, then it becomes an open confrontation between us, EU citizens who don’t care one bit about Ukraine and who certainly aren’t willing to die for it, and those EU citizens that are willing to risk conventional and nuclear war with Russia over the likes of Pokrovsk or Kurachove.

Which is to say, don’t assume that you people form the uncontested majority here in the EU, just look at the Slovak prime-minister or at the Romanian pro-peace presidential candidate who’s had his election victory stolen from under him (I’m Romanian myself)
Trump asks Supreme Court to pause imminent TikTok ban
Good for the planet, bad for the economy.
I'm pretty sure the social safety were gutted when the US slipped right into company profiteering at all costs, busting domestic infrastructure and commerce and leaving people looking around with their hat in their hands wondering why no one can afford anything including houses. It's a capitol/labor split, but I don't love having to use that language.
explainable AI just ain't there yet.

I wonder if the author took a class with Lipton, since he's at CMU. We literally had a lecture about Shapley Values "explaining" AI. It's BS.
That's a cop-out. Unless you want to expand your statement to "there is no right and wrong, period", which just means you have no moral compass.
I think it should be a decay function that looks back longer than a year.
Those windows are not just pieces of art to look at. They do also tint the sunlight, and with that the inside of the cathedral. The proposed new ones each use different colors, which is probably going to cause different parts to be tinted differently.

Should they indeed be replaced, it's a hardeware problem. But by adding computer controled (depeding on sunlight conditions) tinted light bulbs it can be fixed in software.
Fyi, while Nordic products are usually excellent, they did not design the wifi ics. They bought a company and slapped their name on the chips. I haven't used them yet, but from what I've heard they don't live up to Nordic's standard.

Edit: also afaik they don't have a mcu+wifi in one yet.
China, Russia, and India have high speed rail.

Can you cite the reasons that these large countries are capable of building high speed rail while the US is not?

Where is the recent innovation in US air travel? It has gotten considerably worse over the last 30 years. Supersonic passenger flights stopped in 2003 around the same time that TSA added hours to every flight.
> what happened to eclim

I was also curious. The project has been shut down/archived this August recommending java LSP instead but it seems like there hasn't been a lot of work or a release since 2021

https://github.com/ervandew/eclim

> (Aug. 03, 2024)

> Eclim has reached its end of life. The Language Server Protocol (LSP) and the various implementations are mature enough that eclim has become unnecessary.

> It has been a great run (nearly 20yrs!) and I'm grateful for everyone that helped out, from bug reports to patches, it's been awesome
> Also, in what context is this dangerous? To reach dangerous levels one would have to drink well over 100 cups of coffee in a sitting

some people use caffeine powder / pills for gym stuff apparently.

someone overdosed and died after incorrectly weighing a bunch of powder.

doubt it is a big leap to someone dying because they were told the wrong limits by google.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60570470

as ever, machine learning is not really suitable for safety/security critical systems / use cases without additional non-ML measures. it hasn’t been in the past, and i’ve seen zero evidence recently to back up any claim that it is.
This is my objection to paying them. They push a lot of ragebait. They have a lot of longform advertising that is just raw conspiracies or medical quackery.
If I had a site (no time lately to maintain one) it would be because I wanted to inform people and contribute to the world’s accessible knowledge. I would want my information presented in context, accurately, the way I intended, not digested and reworded (often inaccurately) by Google.
You’re one sale behind the times, Bandcamp was sold to Songtradr in 2023
Some high earners are opting for "underconsumption"
It seems to me that this is the key takeaway for founders:

Your accounting stack is

1. accounting software
2. bookkeeping (ie operating the accounting software)
3. cpa / cfo (ie for tax and financial planning)

The benefit and problem with "nextgen" solutions like bench, kick, etc is that they provide a proprietary solution for the entire stack. This could be better/faster/cheaper but also comes with risk, as we are seeing in real time.

In contrast, the minimal risk approach is to source your accounting stack from different vendors:

1. accounting software (eg quickbooks, xero, wave)
2. bookkeeping (hire a person or use a service)
3. cpa / cfo (hire a person or use a service)

If you use "standard" accounting software, you can change the other layers of your accounting stack at will. The total cost of layers 1 and 2 might be $6k-$8k per year for a company with revenue, which looks more expensive than the nextgen solutions. But the reduced risk and increased flexibility may be worth it.
Any video streaming application worth its salt will stop downloading the video track if the user backgrounds the application, turns off the screen or otherwise makes the video surface not visible, so there's no bandwidth wasted in that particular scenario. This is of course somewhat diminished by people not actually turning the video off in many scenarios - and I'm not even sure Netflix supports backgrounded playback, for that matter.

Additionally, videos of still images compress remarkably well, to the point where the image itself is largely the same size as the video track.
Building a professional reputation? Letting people contact you with feedback and improvement suggestions? Pure personal pride? Plenty of reasons to want your work to be attributed to you regardless of whether you're directly monetising people reading it.
Yeah if I'm on a machine that I isn't my primary system, and I don't want to spend forever configuring my whole setup, I use Helix or (Neo)vim.
Even Israel's enemies don't make claims as outlandish as this, despite all the incentive in the world to reveal (and being ideally located to collect evidence of) such a thing.
> Of course the savvy are using LLMs now

I don't think this is true at all. It is people prone to hype, or who are naive, who are using LLMs. The savvy know that a tool which you have to verify every single time (because it isn't deterministic and makes shit up) isn't actually saving you any effort.
Parts of NYC and Philly give SF a run for it's money but the homeless in Chicago, Milwaukee and Boston are neither as ubiquitous nor as troublesome as they are in the big cities on the west coast.
> OpenAI's search is becoming Google in the 2000s

Google started going bad in the 2000s (albeit not as bad as now).

> if it can remain trustworthy.

At no point was it trustworthy - even if it were an abstract LLM, trust would be an issue; but this is the opaque product of a corporation heavily invested in by untrustworthy entities and people.

That does not mean it isn't often useful, but "trust" and "usefulness" are two very different things.
There is also flights in Europe that are faster. I recently traveled from Stuttgart to Vienna via night train. It was even more expensive. But this is not the point. Time sleeping in a night train is not lost. Also typically getting to the airport and from the airport into the city takes time. Same for airport security. And if there is enough wind that night one might even travel CO2 emission free.
Is this different to https://liveuamap.com/ ?
> That alone would flip so many die hard Vim users.

It wouldn't. Diehard Vim and Emacs users might hate each other, but they hate IDEs more.
The newline thing is the motivating example in the introduction, using Llama 3 8B Instruct with up to 200 newlines before the question. If you want to reproduce this example with another model, you might have to increase the number of newlines all the way to the context limit. (If you ask the API to give you logprobs, at least you won't have to run mutiple trials to get the exact probability.)

But the meat of the paper is the Shapley value estimation algorithm in appendix A4. And in A5 you can see that different models giving different results is to be expected.
There should never have even been a discussion about banning TikTok. As a US citizen I want my news from sources outside of the approval of my government alone. The fact that it was the core of the MIC that wanted the ban made me think that it is a very valuable piece of factual information they are trying to hide.
Our doctors and surgeons are paid roughly double what they make in countries like Sweden. Who’s going to convince them to take a pay cut in USA?
and betting the farm based on models with infinite expansion as their core axiom is dicey within relatively short time frames
Apparently the 2010 Chevy Cobalt was available without ABS. Definitely in the minority even 15 years ago though.
The original link was https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/12/27/netflix-tells-wr... which is probably what your parent is commenting on. Some people complained that that's basically a blogspam article that recycles n+1's article, others disagreed and argued there's value in a focused short article - it seems like mods agree with the complainers and changed the link silently to the current one.
What I find most infuriating is that people just don’t care, even when faced with enough evidence that their strategy of mass applying even when they are not a good fit is failing. It just makes it harder for everybody else as you said.
Perhaps a more common question: "How many calories do men need to lose weight?"

Google AI responded: "To lose weight, men typically need to reduce their daily calorie intake by 1,500 - 1,800 calories"

Which is obviously dangerous advice.

IMO Google AI overviews should not show up for anything (a) medical or (b) numerical. LLMs just aren't safe enough yet.
This reminds me of that awesome analysis of all the speech of a diplomat's visit in Asimov's original Foundation book:

> Hardin threw himself back in the chair. “You know, that's the most interesting part of the whole business. I admit that I thought his Lordship a most consummate donkey when I first met him – but it turned out that he is an accomplished diplomat and a most clever man. I took the liberty of recording all his statements.”

>... When Houk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications—in short all the goo and dribble—he found he had nothing left. Everything canceled out. Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so that you never noticed.

I'm pretty sure that we're now at the level of AI where it's possibly to fully automate such an analysis, such that even if the original content is entirely corrupted by product placement, the AI could cut it out to leave only the valuable information, if any remains. The only question is whether the AI will be on the user's side or the advertiser's side.
I got a taste for this years ago at Harris Semi. Grokking their RTX microcontrollers was a ton of fun. (Not so much for customers, who'd never seen such a thing.)
FWIW, that is not a Maven-ism that is actually inherent to Java (the language and the runtime)[1]. Including case-sensitivity for the filename, which was an especially bold choice for Sun to make back in 1990, although I guess they're all "we'll sell more Solaris workstations!!1" or something

For example:

$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
$ printf 'package jimbo;\npublic class Foo2 {}\n' > fred.java
$ javac -g -d . fred.java
fred.java:2: error: class Foo2 is public, should be declared in a file named Foo2.java
public class Foo2 {}
^
1 error

The only exception that I'm aware of is that inner classes don't have to live in their own filename (given that they're more or less property of the owning class)

The Maven-ism that I'm aware of is the by default structure of {src/main/java, src/main/resources, src/test/java, src/test/resources} but (of course) those are customizable via the pom.xml if it jams up your project that much

1: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se6/html/packages.h... (it's the oldest spec version they still link)
I was a little surprised by how many times commercial airliners have been shot down.
This whole website's raison d'être was to provide neutral and accurate information about German immigration.

> as long as information gets out there

A possibly incorrect summary of the information gets out there. Given how much nuance I weave into my content, and how much effort I put into getting the phrasing just right, it frustrates me to no end. There's a very high likelihood that AI could give someone an invalid answer _and_ put my name under it, surrounded by their ads.
There is nothing in lsp world that comes close to PhpStorm for PHP and RubyMine for Ruby.
What is the current status of SEO weasels trying to poison AI data by stuffing it with spam?
But SQL is "naturally composable" using string concatenation. I've seen one too many of

tables = ["order", "product"]
join_on = ["order.product_id = product.id"]
filters = []

as the base of the query, with all of these being concatenated together.

But instead of this, an ORM usually provides you with a syntax (that will pass syntax checks and have highlighting) that matches the language, which is all nice and good because dealing with arbitrary strings does suck.

I've seen ORMs being used for query composition way before Rails even existed: I believe Hibernate had HQL with their first release in 2001, just like SQLObject did in 2002. I am sure neither of those "invented" the pattern.

Note that fetching objects using an ORM library, filtering and such is what I also consider query composition (it just happens behind the scenes).
What’s the outsourced work from India like? Anything worth having?
Perhaps Google AI reads HN at work just like us.
Wait till the monetizing by ads starts
Godbolt shows 40 asm instructions, or am I misreading it?
Two more heuristics:

1. The figures are not vectorized (text in figures can not be selected). All it takes is to replace "png" in `plt.savefig("figure.png")` with "pdf", so this is a very easy fix. Yet the author did not bother, which shows that he either did not care or did not know.

2. The equations lack punctuation.

Of course you can still write insightful papers with low quality figures and unusual punctuation. This is just a heuristic after all.
Places like Mississippi don’t have high homeless problems because they lack services and good weather, so drug addicts who have burned their family/friend networks, at least, hop on a bus to somewhere they can survive (usually a west coast city with mild weather and a progressive voter base that is willing to throw lots of money at the problem). That segment of the problem is 100% mobile, and even self reporting surveys show cause (like 60% of king counties homeless population saying they had previous housing in pioneer square).

If you can’t afford housing anywhere, you just won’t survive very long in lots of places, so survival bias starts to show up.
The nvidia driver breakage happens so often that it's frustrating.